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Master's & Doctoral Student Scholarship

The Center for Health Equity (CHE) in the Graduate School of Public Health (Pitt Public Health) is pleased to offer two yearly awards to students working on their thesis or dissertation in the field of health equity. One award will go to a Master's Student and another one to a Doctoral Student.

The concept of equity encompasses fairness and justice. *The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) says, “health equity entails special efforts to improve the health of those who have experienced social or economic disadvantage.” Further, the DHHS emphasizes addressing the social and economic conditions that have an impact on health. Equity means that all people can attain their full health potential.

*The DHHS defines a health disparity or inequity as “a particular type of health difference that is closely linked with social or economic disadvantage. Health disparities adversely affect groups of people who have experienced greater social or economic obstacles to health based on their racial or ethnic group, religion, socioeconomic status, gender, mental health, cognitive, sensory, or physical disability, sexual orientation, geography, or other characteristics historically linked to discrimination or exclusion.”